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MSC Cruises announced that they have agreed with Fincantieri to construct two additional Seaside class vessels. Hulls 3&4 will come with a slightly altered design. In the rendering above, it looks like they added an additional deck in the forward…
During the MSC Meraviglia events in France, MSC showed the audience a render of their new World Class vessels. The first 200,000gt ship will be delivered from STX France in 2022. We have a long ways to go before we…
MSC Cruises is about to receive the MSC Meraviglia. This is the first in the new Meraviglia class of vessels. The first photos have started leaking out from the shipyard. Check these out. This ship looks amazing.
The most hotly anticipated vessel to launch this year, MSC Cruises MSC Seaside, is nearing completion. A drone enthusiast used his vehicle to capture the MSC Seaside from some pretty neat angles. You can view the 4k video below. The…
Easily one of, if not the, most anticipated newbuild to come out next year is the MSC Seaside. It’s a completely new design that I think we will see a lot of in the next few decades of new ships.…
MSC Cruises and STX France celebrated the floating out of their newest vessel the MSC Meraviglia. The 167,600gt vessel is scheduled to come into service in June 2017. STX France will also be delivering two enlarged Meraviglia ships referred to as…
The sistership to the highly anticipated MSC Seaside will be called MSC Seaview, the line announced today. The 154,000gt ship will be able to carry 4,140pax at double occupancy. Both ships feature a rather unique design with her fore and…
MSC just announced they have agreed to build 4 ships as part of a new 200,000gt ‘next-generation prototype’. Called ‘World Class’, they will carry 5,600pax each. They will also take advantage of LNG propulsion, a new entrant into the cruise…
UPDATE: We knew that there were options for a 3rd and 4th Meraviglia vessel. What this deal does is allow vessels 3 and 4 to be slightly larger versions of those vessels. I’m guessing an additional deck of cabins. The…
MSC Cruises has just announced plans to purchase and create a private island in the Bahamas for their guests. Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie and MSC Cruises Executive Chairman Pierfrancesco Vago signed a 100-year lease yesterday. The island will be called…
from MSC: MSC Cruises, the world’s largest privately-owned global cruise line and the market leader in the Mediterranean and South America, announced today that, starting in December 2015, its 2,120-guestMSC Opera will homeport in Havana for the winter 2015-16 season to offer…
MSC Cruises celebrated the steel cutting of the first of two new designs to debut in the coming years. Taking place at STX France yards in St Nazaire, lasers cut the first plate of steel that will compose the ships…
MSC Just announced at Cruise Shipping Miami, that their Project Seaside newbuild will be stationed yearound in Miami. MSC and the Port of Miami will invest in building a new terminal for her. No word yet on where on Dodge…
MSC just released this new video teasing their two ambitious newbuild projects.
This one is all but confirmed but here it goes. MSC recently released a press release (which has since been redacted) when their latest ship to enter drydock for the Renaissance stretching program. Contained in there, and saved by CruiseIndustryNews, was…
MSC has announced a series of new building initiatives that are nothing short of incredible. The first deal was announced back in March and the most recent one, just last week. STX France Newbuilds High-res Sealevel view: Closeup of lido…
MSC Cruises have just announced that they orders two prototype ships from Italy’s Fincantieri shipyard. CIN, once again, was spot on calling this. The ships appear to be the rumored Project Mille that Fincantieri talked about at Cruise Shipping Miami…
As part of a 200 million euro project to modernize MSC’s Lirica class, the Renaissance Program will see the addition of a 20m long section inserted into the middle of the ship in a process naval architects call “stretching.” The 350gt…